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Islam\u2019s influence on Rumi\u2019s poetry was lost (or erased) in translation:<\/strong> All those spiritual Rumi quotes that show up on your Facebook newsfeed are likely missing a central feature of the Persian poet\u2019s works: \u201cThe Rumi that people love is very beautiful in English, and the price you pay is to cut the culture and religion,\u201d a scholar of Sufism tells The New Yorker<\/a>\u2019s Rozana Ali. Before you start lambasting pop culture figures like Madonna or Coldplay\u2019s Chris Martin, both of whom relied on Rumi\u2019s work for their personal spiritual journeys, the true culprits are translators and theologians from the Victorian period, who \u201ccould not reconcile their ideas about a \u2018desert religion,\u2019 with its unusual moral and legal codes, and the work of poets like Rumi and Hafez.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Islam\u2019s influence on Rumi\u2019s poetry was lost (or erased) in translation: All those spiritual Rumi quotes that show up on your Facebook newsfeed are likely missing a central feature of the Persian poet\u2019s works: \u201cThe Rumi that people love is very beautiful in English, and the price you pay is to cut the culture and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9003],"tags":[72,2397],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-652385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worth-reading","tag-enterpriseam","tag-worth-reading","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"ee7fb10e-7740-4fde-bc58-fc6a6726359f","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[652359],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nIslam\u2019s influence on Rumi\u2019s poetry was lost (or erased) in translation - 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